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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Helen Keller
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen Keller
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
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Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen Keller
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Helen Keller
Smell is a potent wizard that transports